First, a huge THANK YOU to Leo who translated and subtitled this video. Furthermore, I have good news, we are working on something which we will soon announce and which will provide the English speaking world with more such materials. So stay tuned :-)
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The Essential Saker II: Civilizational Choices and Geopolitics / The Russian challenge to the hegemony of the AngloZionist Empire

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Excellent video. The last sentence is certainly correct. Those who are trying to isolate Russia will themselves become isolated. Not only did the US instigate sanctions against Russia, but it also issued imperial decrees to Europe, threatening European firms with sanctions if they dared participate in the Nord Stream – 2 gas pipeline. A nasty shock for Europe, which is now turning towards Russia.

As I have written before, Russia is in Europe while the US is on the other side of the Atlantic. Nobody in Europe wants to be a US imperial stooge, especially since everybody has grasped the fact that anti-Russian sanctions were also anti-European sanctions, the aim being to turn Europe towards the US and prevent all ties with Russia. It won’t work.

I dispute this. I have seen nothing to base the claim on but statements made by certain interested parties in the Anglo Euro Empire which wants to claim Russia for it’s own.
Russia is a united country – President Putin has emphasised this over and over again.
If those who are trying to Balkanise Russia conceptually want to say Siberia and her reindeer herders, the Yak nomads, the Natives of Chukotka, and the people of Vladivostok are “European” they must say on what basis, who or what gives them the right to so designate a people without any reference to those people at all.
I lived for a while in Vladivostok. I asked everyone there I came across “are you European” and got a swift, vehement “NO”.
So, if they aren’t European, no part of Russia is unless you start claiming you have some sort of right to divide her – a thing her enemies have been trying to do for some time.
I would point out – that so called “Europe” – which is not a geographical entity so much as an idea, which is why it’s borders and members keep changing all the time is currently under American suzerainty. It’s biggest, most powerful nation is Germany, which is acknowledged to have no autonomy, as neither does France. This is something President Putin very publically pointed out to Macron at St. Petersberg E.F.
If Europe is under American diktat, as it is de facto, if not de jure, and Russia is “in” Europe, then so is Russia under American control.
This I suspect is not the case.
There is one commonality only, which has been overlooked in error, because of the perception management of the European meme. Both the countries of Europe and of Russia are Caucasian Christian countries. With all their schisms, divisions, differences in genotypes, phenotypes, history and culture, they do trace back a couple of thousand years to that one commonality. They are Caucasian Christian lands, as opposed ot he Middle Earth Equatorial peoples who are Muslims, and the Eastern and Southern peoples who are neither.
But Russia is not “in” Europe, nor is she European. She is “in” Russia, and is Russian.

Isabella
Russia is indeed in Europe, although not the entire country. If you look at the map, you will see that Europe goes all the way to the Urals.

Vladivostok is in the East. Yes, it’s not in Europe. When you asked those people if they were European, they said “no”, which in this case means that they are not West European, but East European, in the sense that they fall under the cultural jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church which is based on the Greek Orthodox Church – Orthodox also means “non Latin”, or “classical” in the sense that the Orthodox Church is the oldest of all Christian churches.. Also, please bear in mind that the Greek Hellenic culture is the basis of European civilization. It was picked up by the Roman Empire. In English universities both Latin and Greek were taught.

Compare St.Petersburg and Vienna. Both are former imperial cities. Any difference between them ? Both are certainly European.

“Russia is indeed in Europe, although not the entire country. If you look at the map, you will see that Europe goes all the way to the Urals.””

-Hello, I think he is referring to Europe as European culture, demographics, religion and so on not geography. Obviously Russia is a European christian country but it stretches over European and Asian lands.. But Russia is populated by Europeans, you can’t tell a Russian from a Swede or a German for example.

“Vladivostok is in the East. Yes, it’s not in Europe. When you asked those people if they were European, they said “no”

-That is not true, Vladivostok is populated like much else of Russia by ethnic Russian, meaning christian white Europeans. You can’t tell a Russian in Vladivostok from a Russian in Moscow or Karelia. This is because Russia is a European space and Asian that live there before was removed away and Vladivostok was funded by a white christian man.

I know today many use the term “European” to refer to EU, this is an active propaganda stunt used by EU. And sadly many follow it, including thesaker, this is of course wrong at every factual level. EU is just a political block inside of Europe which is a continent.

That makes Alaska Far Far East European. I agree with the faulty logic, just for laughs.
And since the Siberian Mongol bloodline extends down all North American “Native Americans”, down through Central and South America, the whole of Western Hemisphere is European, also.

It’s high past time to settle this almost ridiculously infected ”issue” regarding Russia’s Europeanness as follows.

YES:
Russian is a European language.

Russia is a predominantly Christian country.

Russia has left indelible marks upon European history.

The Romanov dynasty modernised Russia by copying contemporary Western European institutions and by acquiring Western European technical and scientific skills.

NO:
Russia didn’t prosper at the expense of the rest of the planet. Messianic fanaticism and the urge to genocide are not ingrained into Russian culture.

Russia has always been coveted by the Western powers for her immense resources. This makes Russia more of an oppressed country historically. Western Europe and its Anglo afterbirth to the west of the Atlantic are the World’s Oppressor Nations.

Liberalism and phoney individualism have very little traction in Russia. Education and science are appreciably better off.

A map is simply something drawn by interested parties. I could draw a map showing differently. I studied Geography at School when it was unmolested by American and Anglo interests. No Part of Russia was drawn as being “Europe” – in fact, neither was “Europe”.
To tell the people of Vladivostok what they are, when they themselves refute it. As President Putin once said “they think they can talk to us like this”.
I noticed that the Encyclopaedia Britannica now says there are no Russian Steppes – they are the European Steppes, i.e. they dont belong to Russia, but to an American owned Europe. Also, the Taiga was eliminated, because, says the E.B. “its just a Russian word meaning wood”.
Do you not see what has been done to Russia here?
Nobody who supports Russia, her sovereignty and right to full autonomy, would or could support this.
Saying Russia IS part of Europe” is a mind trick. It’s words that try to make the assertion a hard fact, like saying water freezes at 0 degrees, when in fact it’s merely a human dreamed up paradigm, with no concrete referent at all.
I have to add something I find curious.
When I mount this argument, which I do frequently on several different sites, some of which are frequented by Slavic and Russian people, I never get an argument against it from Russians, only Europeans and Anglos say “You are wrong, Russia is in Europe” and what’s more, they get very angry often. I often get quite furious rejections wich carry attacks on me personally [not here on Saker, I hasten to add]. But never from Russians.
I wonder why that is.

Isabella
England has been under Zionist control since the 17th century, when Zionist bankers in Holland placed Oliver Cromwell in power. The US is a Rothschild’s creation, who placed George Washington, a free mason and their personal agent, in power. When it comes to history and geography, they are certainly influenced by politics.

I stand by what I have written above. When you corresponded with Russians, i don’t think you understood what they were trying to say.

Finally, when it comes to the current political crisis with Russia and China, you better listen to what political economist Lyndon LaRouche has to say. He openly stated that the only thing which can save the US dollar is the plunder of Siberia and the Caspian region, two of the richest in the world. Now you know why NATO exists and why that coup d’etat in 2014 against Yanukovich was instigated. NATO has been reduced to the personal Praetorian Guard of private bankers, used for plundering. However, it’s days are numbered, as NATO is costing the West 2 billion dollars a day, and this cannot last for ever.

“When you corresponded with Russians, i don’t think you understood what they were trying to say.”

I didn’t “correspond with Russians” and I find your statement that I am so stupid that I cannot understand plain English insulting.
I talked to Russian people, face to face. I talked to students, to tutors, to taxi drivers, to pass-met in the supermarket people.
I said “Would you say you are European?” Know what? They said “NO”.
Just like that.
So what is it I dont understand please?
BY the way, have you ever listened to the now deceased American Political Scientist, who taught “Asian studies” and lived in Russia for some years, Chalmers Johnson?? He gave 5 reasons why the USSR collapsed and the processes under which Gorbachev was subjected, which caused Gorby to betray – not only Russian people but her brothers in the ‘Stans, the “Near Abroad”. The 5th was “Gorbachev wanted better relations with France and Germany – also, his people had begun to identify, with him as European, and as part of this, they wanted to dismantle what remained of Stalinism. ”
If Mr Johnson is correct – and we have no reason to think he was not, – it was this desire to identify as European that led to the biggest betrayal after Lenin that Russia has ever had to suffer.
It breaks my heart to think she may be headed for the same end, purely because neither she nor those who claim to support her, can see the message screaming right in front of her eyes.

“I never get an argument against it from Russians, only Europeans and Anglos say “You are wrong, Russia is in Europe””

I don’t think that’s really fair to Europeans and Anglos, from what I’ve seen, when the West believes Russia is weak and vulnerable and they themselves are powerful and invincible(based on their own propaganda), Russia is a gas station filled with Asiatic barbarians, but when they discover that Russia isn’t as weak as they believed it was and they themselves aren’t as powerful and invincible as they thought they were then Russia becomes an European nation.These things aren’t absolute unchanging things.

Argument for arguments’ sake.
Indeed, Russia, as Hungary, Poland and every other people, who reject the globo-homo gay disco multiplex, belong to the “European civilization”.

Which of course means white(caucasian) and Christian(even of only culturally).

Outliers from Vladivostok are as valid as if I was to call Alaska the representative of the lower 48, or call indian reservations culturally or politically significant.

You know man, it is fine to distinguish between things, that are. To realize the essence of a thing is what the human brain does best left to its’ own methodology. The high priests of the ongoing cultural and informational war does its’ best to neutralise this capability.
Why are you helping them?

I chime in here and say that Russia is, always was and will be European Country. Russia may span over and through Northern Asia but that does not make it an Asiatic country. Just the fact that all three of it’s historical capitals (Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow) are/were in Europe underlines this fact. Yes, it has some Asiatic minorities, but still this does not make it an Asiatic Country.

I do not mean to sound like a racist, but I’d like to point to an interesting video.
The person titled it “Русь. Белая Раса. Очень красивая песня”, which translates to: “Russia. White Race. Beautiful song”
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=gsowzDoe0Qg&list=RDgsowzDoe0Qg&t=111
Check out 0:57, 1:28, 2:08, 5:33. Those are Russians.

Russia is more Asian because she controls territories in Asian then France or UK was Afro-Asian because they controlled territories in Africa or Asia. And these territories actually had hundreds of millions of Asians living in them, unlike the Asian territories Russia controls which is largely devoid of Asians.

Like Isabella, I also dispute that Russia is in Europe. If I’m not mistaken the map that Europe extends to the Urals were first drawn by Europeans. Not exactly quite sure why the cartographers stopped at the Urals; I suppose a natural barrier is as good a place as any to place a boundary.

But I’m not Russian; I’m not sure if you are. It’ll be good to know what Russians think about the question. The question of ‘who’ a Russian is, is still being debated by Russians. I happen to have read Sergei Lavrov’s article on the RF Foreign Ministry website some time ago and as far as I can see even he is cautious about saying that Russia is truly European. Iit seems that the Russians themselves have not settled the question; who are we, outsiders, to settle the question for them?

As far as I can ascertain there are three ‘schools of thought’ about the Russian identity in Russia. One, the European school thinks that ever since Pushkin’s Bronze Horseman ‘opened a window’ to Europe, Russia is forever European. They cite Russia as being part of ‘Christendom’, the embrace of Western European culture, certain social norms (I believe French was the court language during Peter the Great’s time, and beyond), military and naval organisation, etc, as the basis for their (the European’s’) thesis. The second school, the Asiatics, believe that apart from the fact that 70% of Russia lies in Asia, and parts of Russia populated by Asians since time immemorial, the Mongol invasion left an indelible imprint on the Russian psyche and affected its political culture (as opposed to its artistic culture). Thus like Asians, Russians are partial to authoritarian government and collectivism; society over individuals. The third school, the Eurasianists believe that Russia is neither East nor West but somewhere in between. They think that Russia is the natural heir to Genghiz Khan’s Mongol empire that stretched from China up to the Levant. They hold to a geographical determinism that makes it impossible for Russia to be either European or Asian. They reject Europe as being too hedonistic, aggressive, economically-centred and neglectful of spiritual needs. Asia, on the other hand, is too spiritual and inactive. In their eyes, Russia can only be ‘Eurasian’, a state that combines the best of Europe and Asia without any of the disadvantages of being purely European or Asian.

So like I said, it’s up to the Russians to solve this civilisational conundrum themselves. In the meantime, I’ll just content myself by looking at Russia as being, well, Russian!

Brilliant Basil, thank you. Thank you most of all for your respect of Russians.
Until they decide, all of them from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, maybe we should hold our horses and just address them as Russians, whcih my contacts in Primorye insist they are.

An Indian general once told me that Russians make the best soldiers because they combine the fierceness and discipline of the Asians, and the independence and initiative of the Europeans. I think we do not need to define Russia as either Europeans or Asians. They are Russians, and that should be enough.

“Nobody in Europe wants to be a US imperial stooge” BF, I agree with most of your comment except this statement. You forgot the Baltics, Poland, Romania and probably even Sweden they do want to be imperial stooges, Poland is even going to pay to be occupied by the US.

Must admit to being a little puzzled by the comment by Mr. Ostashko suggesting that there are “young people” I presume in Russia [ he said “in the audience” – which Audience, or is this a “lost in translation” moment?] who believe that Russia is “isolated” and that Putin bribes leaders to come to Russia.
It’s so stupid I cringe to think young Russians could be buying this. Do they not go to the Kremlin website, where the positive parade of visiting dignitaries almost on a daily basis, visiting and talking to Putin, can be seen?
Can they not see and hear so many overseas people speaking English across Moscow and St. Petersberg, and see the huge investments going into Russia? It puzzles me and leads to a question — if they have this idea, from where do they get it? Surely not the from the famously restricted press of Russia of which we hear so much in the West?
It’s to be hoped there aren’t too many of these “young people” or that such garbage is too freely promulgated in Russia, or the future for Russia is looking a little worrisome.

Thank you for pointing out the error. I typed “lecture hall” instead of audience and now changed it. We know from at least the official statistics of the recent Russian presidential election; there are over 2 million people that side with the neo-liberal/foreign funded version of events. These people tend to listen to Dozhd, Echo of Moscow and other disinfo media. The good news is that it’s not the 1990s anymore, so not that many people have trust in the words of Ksenia Sobchak or Grigory Yavlinsky.

Leo
I am very pleased that the liberal influence in Russia is minimal, as these liberals are nothing more than political Trojan horses, intended by the West to destabilize Russia and turn the clock back to the Yeltsin years when the country was plundered to the sum of 100 billion dollars a year.

On the other hand I am very sad that Russia has people like Sobchak, who wants to terminate the Office of President, who wants to “return” Crimea to Ukraine and who wants to see Russia in the EU, so it could be plundered yet again. I hope that not too many young people in Russia will be influenced by Western disinformation.

Isolation? Russia is not isolated, on contrary fully integrated with a certain western camp, both economically and politically. Yes EU main powers GB,Germany and France are against Russia and possibly try to isolate Russia to conduct business within their domain, but that’s all about it. And these powers are also against the US current Administration (i.e Trump). All is part of a much greater global chess game and Russia is an important part of it, but definitely not a game decider or changer. I would put the geopolitical significance of Russia on the chess board at an equal level to Iran and Saudi Arabia. Yes Russia has a stronger army and inherited nuclear war heads, but this has not much of a meaning to alter the geopolitical chess game which is going on full blast as we speak. Military might of Russia is only defensive and only ensures that Russia won’t be attacked militarily, lets say like Iraq was attacked a decade ago. And I don’t think anyone, let alone Nato is interested in attacking Russia. There is no purpose or geopolitical gain to do so. There are other means especially economic if you need to subdue opponents. It is a hybrid war situation and opponents of Russia are just playing the game. Attempts of economic isolation is part of the hybrid war.
If you have followed the G7 meeting in Canada, US is in the same shoe. EU wants to isolate US (Trump’s US or Yankee Doodle as I call it). That is why Trump which has excellent relationship with Putin, suggested invitation of Russia back to G7. Russia and current US admin (Yankee Doodle) is hand in hand against the old west (House of Royals). There is no such thing of Isolation of Russia and it can’t and won’t happen.

I think this video is part of the Russian state propaganda using the rhetoric that Russia is pushed into isolation to imply that Russia is a real sovereign state. It is aimed at regular Russian audience and it is far from the truth, in my humble opinion.

I thought Tonys lecture was going well until he ventured into the Skripal affair. To try and make more of the BZ lab results than is the case just ruins his whole essay. Not even the Russians are still trying to push that barrow.
As much as we might like these things to be true it does not make them true. You cant pick and chose which parts of these lab reports you like. Either believe them or throw them out, you cant have it both ways.
Unfortunately we all have our own bias and then believe what we want to believe, then naivety sets in.

Googel Translation:
Messages of the Messenger. The first cycle. The Mystery of Ukraine

At the edge of the abyss, she stands, and continues to struggle for the opportunity to fall into the bottomless pit of alienation and oblivion. This is a paradox that many will not understand, but the roots of this, in general, local insanity, lie in a failed experiment to assimilate Western and Slavic culture. This is not the first and not the last vivisection of this kind, as a result of which there were more embarrassments and more serious than just ruptures of fraternal relations. The last, and completely unsuccessful experiment of this kind, is familiar to many, and happened in the last century, where once the single people of Korea were divided into two irreconcilably warring factions. One of them advocated the collectivization of society, and the other took the principle of a dominant personality.

From the political elite, this looks like a confrontation between two social worldviews, and is allowed because of the expansion of their personal interests, but this is only a facade behind which lies more than just the display of ambitiousness of some characters who imagined themselves to be the pivots of the destinies of mankind. The source of this game comes from spiritual plans, and is an attempt to assimilate diametrically opposite concepts of social development. Spiritual puppeteers know that this is impossible in principle, so the purpose of this provocation is to show the two sides of one coin at a rapid pace in a vivid example to their disciples (Souls). It should be noted that games of this level will be completed in the near future, because they contradict the beginning of the cycle of revival.

In this row there is Ukraine torn apart by internal contradictions, which is also directed by shadow forces. And if the original purpose of this sabotage was an attempt to force Russia to make a number of concessions, which in turn would lead the Slavic world to complete surrender, or to absorption by Western culture, subsequent events showed that the Russian people still retained their original nature, and is able to stand up for himself. Those who stood behind the shadow forces expected this, they were not interested in either the Western or Slavic ethnos, the “new world order”, neither those who supported it, nor humanity itself in its present state.

They skillfully manipulated their shadow hierarchs, supporting their ambitions for global hegemony, only for one purpose: to push several nuclear superpowers with their foreheads and get not just a third world war, but a nuclear apocalypse. After which the civilization, as in the previous times, would cease to exist, and then the era of the rebirth of mankind would begin.

Undoubtedly, Ukraine, as a secret saboteur, who did not know about this, has long been neutralized. It is just one of the pawns in this multi-way combination, and its further destiny is disintegration and absorption by neighboring countries, which are just waiting for it. And those shadow forces that stood behind her and directed her, themselves are in a state of half-decay into separate clans, which have already started fighting among themselves for crumbs from the master’s table. On the fate of the gentlemen behind this nuclear composition, I will tell only when the right moment comes.

Hello guys,I’l afraid(but not surprised)that we have another ‘Tsipras traitor’2.0…of course I’m talking about the new ”supposed to be anti system-populist-pro russian’,Italian PM,Conte.

Same usual BS from the G7(strangely timed same week end as the Bilderberg),and just days before the World Cup starts(thursday).

G7 leaders ready to step up anti-Russian sanctions.

“We also stand ready to take further restrictive measures in order to increase costs on Russia,” said the leaders of the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, the US, France and Japan.

The G7 leaders said that the abolishment of sanctions against Russia depends on Moscow’s implementation of the Minsk accords. “We recall that the continuation of sanctions is clearly linked to Russia’s failure to demonstrate complete implementation of its commitments in the Minsk Agreements and respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and we fully support the efforts within the Normandy Format and of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe for a solution to the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.” Moscow repeatedly said in response that the warring sides in eastern Ukraine should be called on to observe the agreements, not Russia.

“We reiterate our condemnation of the illegal annexation of Crimea and reaffirm our enduring support for Ukrainian sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders,” the declaration says. According to the declaration, the Group of Seven leaders are still determined to provide comprehensive help to Ukraine in carrying out reforms.

In addition, the G7 leaders demanded that Moscow should stop supporting Syria’s authorities. The communique contains the appeal “to cease its destabilizing behaviour, to undermine democratic systems and its support of the Syrian regime.”

My view of the world is that the west, or more particularly the US, is trying to build a new Iron Curtain. This is the effect of their economic warfare known as sanctions. If you dare trade with people we don’t like, or who compete with us, then we ‘sanction you’. This means you cannot come to the world’s largest police state, let the Wall Street bankers rob you, then have the NYC muggers steal whatever is left in your pockets.

But, its very hard to see how you can call a place or a person ‘isolated’ when they are on the same side of the Iron Curtain 2.0 as a billion Chinese.

Of course, I’m enough of a prankster that I’d have called the visit of Putin to Beijing the “G2”, just to rub it in. :)

Great analysis. Thanks for the effort Leo, and thanks to The Saker for putting it up on the blog.

In Moscow what actually took place was one big holiday of disobedience to the American hegemony.

Best quote of the video clip.

The presence of hundreds of parliamentarians, in other words, representatives of the world’s peoples, must surely show the serfs that the peoples of the RoW don’t give a fig about their machinations, their war-mongering, or their call to sociopathy. The fact that Volodin was the chairman of the meet must really grate with the AZ Empire’s serfs. Russia’s isolation only exist in their own minds. Pity they can’t see it. The parliamentarians’ meet is a perfect complement to the government get together at the UN. Hopefully the sight of the skank Haley’s sole upraised hand will be a common one at the UNSC.

Hey Basil, thanks for your support. This was my first time officially translating a Russian to English video. I am a second generation Russian-American, so I knew about 80% of the words in the video. For the harder ones, I looked up what they meant. It’ll be like practice for my language skills. I also completely agree on the best quote of the video. I try to translate as literal from the original meaning as I can.

“Russian diplomats say the non-stop outbursts of violence in Donbass confirm that Ukraine has no intention of honoring the Minsk Accords, and accuse the US and their allies of supporting Kiev’s course towards war.

“As far as the UN presence in Donbass is concerned, it is well known that in September 2017 Russia submitted a draft resolution on the issue to the UN Security Council. However, we still have not received any amendments to this document, in written form. Instead, our European and American partners are promoting the ideas of a military operation of ‘coercing into peace’ and putting an international military-civilian administration in charge of the region before it holds any elections,” reads the ministry’s comment released on Saturday in connection with the planned meeting in the Normandy Four format in Berlin, scheduled for June 11.

Russian diplomats also noted that the aggravation of the situation in Donbass is clear confirmation of the fact that Kiev has no intention of sticking to the Minsk Agreements. “The recent events demonstrate that the Kiev authorities do not intend to fulfill the Minsk Agreements, that they blatantly distort the logic and sequence of these documents and draw an artificial connection between their readiness to move on along the political track and the full military capitulation of the Donbass republics and their giving up of the control of the border with Russia,” the comment reads.

“At the same time, the Ukrainian side gives the residents of the country’s south-east no political guarantees whatsoever and uses all methods to instigate tensions on the line of contact and to step up the economic, transport and trade blockade of the region,” the Russian diplomats noted.

The ministry’s statement also said that at the forthcoming meeting of the Normandy Four, Russia intends to demand the restoration of the status quo in the so called ‘grey zone’ of conflict, where pro-Kiev troops moved into the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed republic in violation of the ceasefire agreement. “After the pullout of heavy weapons and combat machinery this new step would become an important stage in establishing a stable ceasefire regime in line with the Minsk Accords,” the comment reads.”

Russia is Russian. This definition of geographic space is misleading – what defines someone is the culture he subscribes to – and I am quite sure that Russia is primarily it’s own distinct civilisation – for sure it absorbed a lot from both the ‘West’ and the ‘East’ – but ultimately formed its own distinct culture and civilisation. I say this because I am from a country (Malta) that whilst it speaks a semitic language primarily based on an arabic dialect of North African origin, we have never considered ourselves as Arab – for our culture (whilst distinct) has always been greatly influenced by European (particularly Spanish, French, Portuguese and mostly Italian) culture. If a tiny nation like mine can have its own distinct culture which absorbed influences from a myriad of sources just imagine how more nuanced the situation in a great country like Russia must be. Someone from St. Petersburg would perhaps consider himself to be more ‘European’ whilst someone from perhaps Chechnya wouldn’t – but both have something that binds them – and that something is Russia.

Volodin actually said “ I underestimated the Western and local Westernized propaganda”. This underestimating of the Western propaganda machinery seems to plague Russia. It is either that or they are playing 5 dimensional chess and like to me smeared and lamb basted. I just can not accept nor respect his analysis based solely on that revelation alone full stop.

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